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[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Narrator: The Stein cicada has gone back underground to hibernate 4 more years. She will eventually resurface to make her cicada noises next election cycle

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's almost like we live under a fundamentally corrupt system designed for slave masters to work together.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The electoral college is bad, but isn't the core problem.

The core problem is First Past the Post voting. And before the 1780s, the issues were almost completely unknown because voting at scale wasn't really a thing.

Now, the French saw the problem, or rather a French Mathematician named Condorcet did. He even hacked together a clunky voting system that sort of addressed the problem. But sadly was killed as part of the Reign of Terror.

The person who can beat every other candidate in a one on one election is called the Condorcet Winner.

Anyway the two voting systems that actually fix the problems are Approval and STAR. Both can easily deliver the Condorcet Winner while also supporting an unlimited number of candidates on the ballot.

[–] PantanoPete@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is like the ~2 month period in between US election spam, I quite enjoy it. I really don't need 12 months a year of yanks bitching about their idiotic government.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

That's how you get a 2-party-system.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Good news, you don't need parties when there are no elections.

[–] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

My city has a new Marxist Leninist party that has started up after the election. So no they aren't gone, but they are still harebrained.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They still pop up now and again when they want to justify why Trump being elected was better than the filthy LIBERAL getting into office.

Which, itself, is a bit funny considering that third parties didn't have much influence on that.

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